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This list of Baptist denominations is a list of subdivisions of Baptists, with their various Baptist associations, conferences, conventions, fellowships, groups, and unions around the world. Unless otherwise noted, information comes from the World Baptist Alliance .
As of 2014, approximately 15.3% of Americans identified as Baptist, making Baptists the second-largest religious group in the United States, after Roman Catholics. [1] By 2020, Baptists became the third-largest religious group in the United States, with the rise of nondenominational Protestantism.
American Baptist Churches USA – 1.2 million [72] Baptist Bible Fellowship International – 1.2 million [75] Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention – 1.1 million [72] Baptist Community of the Congo River – 1.1 million [72] National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A. – 1.0 million [75] Myanmar Baptist Convention – 1.0 million [72]
The majority of Baptist churches are part of national denominations (or 'associations' or 'cooperative groups'), as well as the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), formed in 1905 by 24 Baptist denominations from various countries.
The nation's second-largest denomination and the single largest Protestant denomination is the Southern Baptist Convention. [12] Among Eastern Christian denominations, there are several Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, with just below 1 million adherents in the U.S., or 0.4% of the total population. [ 13 ]
The Handbook of Denominations in the United States identifies and describes 31 Baptist groups or conventions in the United States. [14] A partial list follows. (Unless otherwise noted, statistics are taken from the Baptist World Alliance website, and reflect 2006 data.) [15]
The SBC has been in membership decline for nearly two decades but remains the largest Protestant denomination in America. In statistics released earlier this year by Lifeway Research, the ...
Independent Baptist denominations in the United States (1 C, 9 P) N. National Baptist Convention, USA (2 C, 3 P) S. ... North American Baptist Conference; P.